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Fame and Death in April

Norman MacAfee | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Cesar Chávez, Einstein, Keynes, Picasso, Ford, Ginger Rogers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hitler, Murrow, T. S. Eliot, Sartre, Garbo, ?€œNew York Times? Obituary Page, Nixon, Fred Astaire, Stravinsky, Douglas MacArthur, Barnum, Healthy Living News
Norman MacAfee

If you go to The New York Times' obituary page, you will see the list of deaths of famous people who died in any given month and were written about in...

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If Infinity Is The Devil, What Is God?

Clay Farris Naff | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Quantum Physics, Infinity, Devil, Religion, Hawking, Physics, Science, God, Weinberg, Steinhardt, Religion Science, Religion and Science, Sartre, Religion News
Clay Farris Naff

If the universe harbors an endless sea of bubbles like ours, in every conceivable variation, then there can be no meaning to it all. Infinity won't allow it.

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Literary Fisticuffs! Flying Fists And Zinging Words: Nobody Fights Like An Angry Writer (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Sartre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, Camus, Slidepollajax, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, c.s. Lewis, Norman Mailer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Books News

Stereotypically, artists are stormy, temperamental, and moody. These literary figures feed the stereotype with their classic feuds. We asked readers...

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ARTS LUST: Remembering Henri Bergson

Allan M. Jalon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henri Bergson, Creativity, 20th Century Philosophy, Sartre, Franz Kafka, Arts News
Allan M. Jalon

Before January is forgotten, Arts Lust wants to place a memory kiss on the high slender forehead of Henri Bergson who died last month at the age of 81.

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'Road Train' Cars Drive Themselves While You Sleep

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Road Train, Video, Sartre Road Train, Volvo Road Train, Volvo Platooning, Slidepollajax, Volvo, The Future, Platooning, Future Cars, Vlvo s60, Cars of the Future, Sartre, Autonomous Cars, Technology News

Imagine you're driving down the highway, when you pass a column of cars cruising in tandem. You notice with awe that the steering wheel in each car mo...

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In Sartre's Words. The Day Proust and Joyce Met. The Death of François Baudot

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jean-François Louette, Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre, Sartre, Malraux, La Pleiade, Charles Haas, The Carnets, Proust, Gilles Philippe, Swann, World News
Bernard-Henri Lévy

His name was François Baudot. He was an old friend I scarcely saw in the last months, but whose suicide at the age of 60 moves me deeply.

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Did The Death Of Communism Take Koestler And Other Literary Figures With It?

The New York Review of Books | Anne Applebaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Langston Hughes, Communism, Rapist, Koestler, Wwii, Suicide, Nyr, Zionism, Camus, Israel, Cold War, Sartre, Paris, Soviet Union, Books News

Anne Applebaum The New York Review Of Books "Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic" by Michael Scammell, Rando...

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